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  • The DevOps Institute Fields The ‘2019 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report’ Survey

    First of its kind survey to baseline and track DevOps skillsets across the global enterprise IT community met with broad industry support

    BOCA RATON, FLA. October 22, 2018 – The DevOps Institute (DOI), the Association for DevOps Professionals, today announced the launch of the “2019 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report” community survey in collaboration with founding Platinum sponsor Electric Cloud and founding Gold sponsor CloudBees. The survey and resulting report are designed to help companies better understand both the current and future state of DevOps skilling and cross-skilling across the global IT community. Using data science coupled with qualitative analysis, DOI’s goal in fielding the report is to provide tangible insight into why and where IT practitioners, managers, leaders and business stakeholders should focus their efforts in growing personal and organizational skills portfolios. Eveline Oehrlich, former Vice President and Research Director at Forrester, will bring her data science expertise as the lead research analyst for the report.

    To participate in the “2019 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report” survey, please visit: (https://www.research.net/r/K9WD2XC).   

    The “2019 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report” survey is active through December 7, 2018, and the corresponding report will be published in early 2019. In addition to contributing to the global DevOps community, any organization that has at least 20 survey respondents will receive a snapshot of their skills profile when the report is published. DOI is excited to validate DevOps skilling and cross-skilling needs across the global IT community, but also support individual organizations and understand where they are today and where they need to go tomorrow.

    “’T’ is the shape of transformation and digital transformation requires cross-functional skills at all levels of the IT organization,” said Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute. “However, the migration from a deeply skilled specialist to a cross-functional T-shaped practitioner is leaving many in IT confused about what skills they should be acquiring and hiring and when. Hopefully, this research will provide some data backed clarity.”

    “The DevOps movement is at the heart of one of the biggest business transformations in history, enabling organizations to deliver innovation at an unprecedented rate,” explained Carmine Napolitano, CEO at Electric Cloud. “This transformation will never reach its potential if teams don’t have access to, or cultivate, the right types of skills. When the DevOps Institute approached us to sponsor this research, which is designed to identify these skills so our industry can address those gaps, we jumped at the chance to participate. We believe this research will create a data-driven pathway to developing a new, highly skilled talent pool capable of driving instead of reacting to these market forces. This initiative continues Electric Cloud’s long history of supporting the DevOps community through its co-founding of the DevOps Enterprise Summit conference with Gene Kim and IT Revolution, and its c9d9 educational podcast series.”

    “As I speak with DevOps leaders and teams in enterprises around the world, one thing is clear: a DevOps journey is a true transformation involving process and technology. However, the most important asset is people with the right skills to meet the multi-faceted challenges of any DevOps transformation,” said Sacha Labourey, CEO and co-founder, CloudBees. “These skills are not necessarily the skills that ensured success just five to ten years ago. We are keen to collaborate with DOI on this research effort to uncover the nuanced skill sets organizations require to lead their most important strategic innovation and growth initiatives. As a leader in the DevOps industry and Jenkins community, we look forward to supporting this survey and helping enterprises become best-in-class in delivering business value through software.”

    About the DevOps Institute
    The DevOps Institute (DOI) is the Association for DevOps Professionals that encourages continuous learning as a lifestyle. Members have global access to the most innovative, inspirational and transformational DevOps networking and career growth opportunities.

    Web | https://devopsinstitute.com/
    Twitter | @DEVOPSINST
    LinkedIn | /devops-institute
    YouTube | DevOps Institute

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  • Twilio to Acquire SendGrid, the Leading Email API Platform

    Accelerates Twilio’s Mission to Fuel the Future of Communications

    Brings Together the Two Leading Communication Platforms for Developers

    The Combination to Create One, Best-in-Class Cloud Communications Platform for Companies to Communicate with Customers Across Every Channel

    Twilio & SendGrid Together Serve Millions of Developers, Have 100,000+ Customers, and Have a Greater than $700 Million Annualized Revenue Run Rate*

    Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) and SendGrid today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Twilio to acquire SendGrid in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. At the exchange ratio of 0.485 shares of Twilio Class A common stock per share of SendGrid common stock, this price equates to approximately $36.92 per share based on today’s closing prices. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2019.

    Adding the leading email API platform to the leading cloud communications platform can drive tremendous value to the combined customer bases. The resulting company would offer developers a single, best-in-class platform to manage all of their important communication channels — voice, messaging, video, and now email as well. Together, the companies currently drive more than half a trillion customer interactions annualized*, and growing rapidly.

    “Increasingly, our customers are asking us to solve all of their strategic communications challenges – regardless of channel. Email is a vital communications channel for companies around the world, and so it was important to us to include this capability in our platform,” said Jeff Lawson, Twilio’s co-founder and chief executive officer. “The two companies share the same vision, the same model, and the same values. We believe this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring together the two leading developer-focused communications platforms to create the unquestioned platform of choice for all companies looking to transform their customer engagement.”

    “This is a tremendous day for all SendGrid customers, employees and shareholders,” said Sameer Dholakia, SendGrid’s chief executive officer. “Our two companies have always shared a common goal – to create powerful communications experiences for businesses by enabling developers to easily embed communications into the software they are building. Our mission is to help our customers deliver communications that drive engagement and growth, and this combination will allow us to accelerate that mission for our customers.”

    Details Regarding the Proposed SendGrid Acquisition
    The boards of directors of Twilio and SendGrid have each approved the transaction.

    Under the terms of the transaction, Twilio Merger Subsidiary, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Twilio, will be merged with and into SendGrid, with SendGrid surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Twilio. At closing, each outstanding share of SendGrid common stock will be converted into the right to receive 0.485 shares of Twilio Class A common stock, which represents a per share price for SendGrid common stock of $36.92 based on the closing price of Twilio Class A common stock on October 15, 2018. The exchange ratio represents a 14% premium over the average exchange ratio for the ten calendar days ending, October 15, 2018.

    The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2019, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including shareholder approvals by each of SendGrid’s and Twilio’s respective stockholders and the expiration of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. Certain stockholders of SendGrid owning approximately 6% of the outstanding SendGrid shares have entered into voting agreements and certain stockholders of Twilio who control approximately 33% of total Twilio voting power have entered into voting agreements, or proxies, pursuant to which they have agreed, among other things, and subject to the terms and conditions of the agreements, to vote in favor of the SendGrid acquisition and the issuance of Twilio shares in connection with the SendGrid acquisition, respectively.

    Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC is serving as exclusive financial advisor to Twilio and Goodwin Procter LLP is acting as legal counsel to Twilio. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. is serving as exclusive financial advisor to SendGrid and Cooley LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP are acting as legal counsel to SendGrid.

    Q3 2018 Results and Guidance
    Both companies will report their respective financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2018 on November 6, 2018. However, both Twilio and SendGrid are announcing that they have exceeded the guidance provided on Aug. 6th and July 31st, respectively, for their third fiscal quarters.

    Guidance for the combined company will be provided after the proposed transaction has closed.

    About SendGrid
    SendGrid is a leading digital communications platform enabling businesses to engage with their customers via email reliably, effectively and at scale. A leader in email deliverability, SendGrid has processed over 45 billion emails each month for internet and mobile-based customers as well as more traditional enterprises.

  • Magic xpi Integration Platform Achieves SAP-Certified Integration with SAP S/4HANA®

    Magic’s integration solution empowers customers to automate and optimize processes through interoperability with SAP® solutions

    Laguna Hills, CA, October 9th, 2018 – Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: MGIC), a global provider of end-to-end integration and low-code application development platforms and IT consulting services, announced today that its Magic xpi Integration Platform 4 has achieved SAP-certified integration with SAP S/4HANA, enabling Magic’s customers to optimize business processes through automation across leading ERP, CRM, finance, and other enterprise systems using a single platform.

    The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that Magic xpi Integration Platform 4 integrates with SAP S/4HANA to connect with any system or data source, and can expose SAP data on the web or via mobile devices.

    “SAP certifications for Magic xpi is part of our continuous commitment to provide vendor approved connectors to speed up time to market for software, while ensuring ease of maintenance and upgrades,” commented Yuval Lavi, VP of Technology & Innovation at Magic Software. “With today’s focus on digital transformation and continuous innovation, certified integrations are an important building block for ensuring a free flow of information throughout the enterprise for optimizing end-to-end business processes.”

    As a result of the certified integration, Magic Software customers can be confident that Magic xpi has been proven to smoothly integrate with SAP solutions. Magic Software provides a fast and effective way to automate and optimize business processes involving SAP solutions and other applications, systems or data sources. For example, Magic xpi provides the ability to integrate ERP, CRM and eCommerce systems for supporting business growth and creating differentiating customer experiences. In addition, Magic xpi is used to integrate ERP and MES systems for improved inventory management and quicker agility when responding to fast changing customer requirements.

    About Magic Software Enterprises
    Magic Software Enterprises is a global provider of powerful and versatile end-to-end, on-premises and cloud-based integration and low-code application development platforms.

    With over 30 years of experience, 24 regional offices, millions of installations worldwide, and strategic alliances with global IT leaders, Magic enables its customers to seamlessly adopt new technologies and maximize business opportunities. Magic collaborates closely with its customers and thousands of business partners in 50 countries to accelerate their business performance.

    SAP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP S/4HANA and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. See http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx for additional trademark information and notices. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

  • Clearlake Capital-Backed Perforce Software to Acquire Perfecto Mobil

    Enhanced Perforce solutions portfolio to include cloud-based continuous automated testing at scale for enterprise mobile and web applications

    MINNEAPOLIS and SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Perforce Software (“Perforce”), a global provider of enterprise-grade DevOps-focused software solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Perfecto Mobile (“Perfecto”), a market leader in cloud-based automated mobile and web application test software solutions. The acquisition augments Perforce’s software portfolio with additional capabilities for enterprise DevOps teams to achieve continuous testing at scale across web, mobile and IoT applications.  The acquisition is expected to close this year.

    Perfecto is the industry pioneer delivering the only true enterprise-grade mobile & web automation testing software platform through its globally accessible Continuous Quality Lab. The company is the go-to provider for large organizations that need to accelerate their digital transformation and provide their customers with the best online mobile and web experiences. Leading enterprises in banking, retail, telecommunications, and insurance rely on Perfecto’s robust automated testing software to deliver quality experiences faster and retain users in highly competitive markets.

    “Enterprises continue to need more automation to both scale and accelerate their application delivery,” said Mark Ties, Perforce CEO. “Perfecto adds a critical component to our DevOps capabilities allowing Perforce to deliver more value for large enterprise customers that value scalability and security.”

    Perforce continues to add capabilities to its software portfolio that uniquely meet the needs of technology development teams that are challenged with multiple dimensions of scale but still must deliver products at a rapid pace.  The acquisition of Perfecto will represent Perforce’s fifth acquisition in the past two years.

    “With this strategic acquisition, Perforce is well positioned to capitalize on the significant market trends around demand for continuous testing from enterprise DevOps teams,” added Prashant Mehrotra and Paul Huber of Clearlake. “We are excited to continue our support of Mark and the Perforce management team as they drive consolidation in the industry and accelerate organic growth.”

    “Perfecto is the mobile and web testing software platform of choice for enterprise clients. The digital transformation is driving accelerated adoption of DevOps and its activities such as continuous integration, test automation and continuous delivery to more quickly capture and engage customers online. Our Continuous Quality Lab enables enterprises to remove bottlenecks and rapidly validate and deliver mobile and web applications that engage their customers,” said Eran Yaniv, Perfecto Co-Founder and CEO. “We are thrilled to join the Perforce team and are confident that this partnership provides us increased resources to capitalize on the continuous testing market opportunity.”

    About Perforce
    Perforce is a leading provider of enterprise scale software solutions to technology developers and development operations (“DevOps”) teams requiring productivity, visibility and scale during all phases of the development lifecycle. Enterprises across the globe rely on its agile planning and ALM tools, developer collaboration, static code analysis, version control and repository management solutions as the foundation for successful DevOps at scale. Perforce is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft, and VMware. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com.

    About Perfecto
    Perfecto is the leader in continuous testing and monitoring for today’s dynamic DevOps environments. Our Continuous Quality Lab enables DevOps teams to accelerate development, achieve continuous testing and monitoring, and drive fast feedback through actionable analytics for web, mobile, and IoT applications. More than 3,000 customers rely on our cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab as their digital application test environment and for authoring test automation executed on real browsers, smartphones, and devices under real end-user conditions. For more information about Perfecto, visit perfecto.io.

    About Clearlake Capital
    Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is a leading private investment firm founded in 2006. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with world-class management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake’s operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm’s core target sectors are software and technology-enabled services; industrials and energy; and consumer. Clearlake has managed over $8 billion of institutional capital since inception and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 100 investments. More information is available at www.clearlake.com.

  • DronaHQ Participates in Japan IT Week 2018

    Mumbai, October 8, 2018: DronaHQ, a low code app development platform with containerised approach for enterprises, is participating in Japan IT Week 2018 which will be held on 24-26 October 2018, Makuhari Messe, Chiba. DronaHQ invites attendees to its booth (Booth #139) to learn more about incorporating DronaHQ’s solutions into their portfolios. DronaHQ has a global and regional alliance program to connect with systems integrators, technology consultants, and resellers to enable digital transformation with their low-code app development platform.

    DronaHQ has been mentioned in Gartner Hype Cycle for two consecutive years 2017 and 2018 for ICT in India, having RMAD and BYOD capabilities and recently has also been mentioned in digital workplace publication by Gartner in “4 Steps to Implement a Perimeterless Digital Workplace”.

    DronaHQ is actively looking for channel partners and system integrators in the region who can help to empower organisations in their digital transformation journey through DronaHQ’s low code solutions.

    Dinesh Chauhan, Vice President of Channel Sales at DronaHQ, says, “The Channel Partner Program is an integral component of DronaHQ’s overall growth strategy and our goal of continuing to attract enterprises to our value-added platform. They get an extended access to tools, domain expertise and support. With 100+ enterprises across strategic industry verticals, and expansions announced in the APAC and North America markets, the channel represents an important contributor to our success in filling these facilities and fueling future expansions across our portfolio.”“

    In essence, DronaHQ’s low code app development platform, supports enterprise transformation by combining advanced tools and powerful analytics with speed and at scale. This enables clients to reach their full potential by extending the power of digital through their organization.

    About DronaHQ

    DronaHQ (http://dronahq.com) is a Low Code Application Development Platform, with containerised approach. The platform offers designing, developing, distributing & managing modern apps across multiple digital touchpoints like smartphones, smart devices, tablets, desktops, voice assistants, chatbots, browsers and more. DronaHQ platform offers high-productivity development tooling for professional and citizen developers to easily build new apps with little to no coding experience.  DronaHQ’s customers include a range of industries, such as banking & financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, FMCG & telecommunications with clients including Colgate, LTI, Mondelez, Kotak Securities Axis MF, Pfizer, Wipro, Future Group, Essar, Tata Motors. DronaHQ has been mentioned in Gartner Hype Cycle for two consecutive years 2017 and 2018 for ICT in India, having RMAD and BYOD capabilities and has also been mentioned in digital workplace publication by Gartner in “4 Steps to Implement a Perimeterless Digital Workplace”.

    Founded in 2007, DronaHQ is an ISO 27001:2017 & SOC Type II certified company with operations in Mumbai, Bengaluru and New York and works with over 10 SI partners.  DronaHQ has over 300,000 users across 100+ enterprise customers with over 1000 apps digitized on the platform.

     About Japan IT Week 2018

    Japan It Week is a 3 days event which is being held from 24th to the 26th October 2018 at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. This event showcases products like latest IT technologies or solutions. Information systems, management executives, sales management services, system integrator etc. in the Computer Hardware & Software industry.

     

  • Idera, Inc. Acquires Kiuwan and Bolsters Testing Tools Business with Application Security and Code Testing Capabilities

    Adding security to DevOps processes will empower developers with state-of-the-art insights and analysis

     

    HOUSTON – Oct. 5, 2018 – Idera, Inc., parent company of global B2B software productivity brands, today announced the acquisition of Kiuwan, a SaaS solution for measuring and analyzing risk and security in the software development lifecycle. Kiuwan will join Idera, Inc.’s Testing Tools Business, which also includes TestRail and Ranorex Studio.

    In an ever-changing technology landscape, security teams must be nimble and ready to adapt as evolving business requirements and threats dictate new or modified policies and tools. Unfortunately, in most companies change management processes are slow and inefficient, impeding agile development processes.

    Kiuwan’s application security testing platform provides a complete overview and impact analysis of software architecture in minutes, reducing risk and improving change management and DevOps processes that historically required hours or days. The solution integrates with leading IDEs, build systems, bug tracking tools and repositories to detect and eliminate vulnerabilities, and provide full compliance with security standards all at a significantly lower price than competitors.

    Kiuwan has more than 200 customers in 25 countries, including AXA, BBVA, BNP Paribas, Carrefour, DHL, Ferrovial, KFC, Telefonica, Banco Santander, Roche, Siemens, and more.

    “Kiuwan’s cloud-native solution demonstrates significant speed and innovation while helping companies manage the security of business applications and improve overall testing efforts,” said Wilson Warmack, general manager of Idera’s Testing Tools Business. “We look forward to integrating these capabilities with our TestRail and Ranorex solutions to make application security testing an easier and more integral part of testers’ workflows.”

    “Our mission is to provide objective data that helps organizations make informed decisions about the risks associated with mission-critical applications,” said Jesus Martin, CEO of Kiuwan. “Joining forces with Idera expands our ability to serve customers as we expand functionality to maintain our leadership position in the SecDevOps market.”

    About Idera, Inc.

    Idera, Inc. delivers B2B software productivity tools that enable technical users to do more with less, faster. Idera, Inc. brands span three divisions – Database Tools, Developer Tools, and Testing Tools – with products that are evangelized by millions of community members and more than 50,000 customers worldwide, including some of the world’s largest healthcare, financial services, retail, and technology companies. To learn more, visit: Ideracorp.com.

    About Kiuwan

    Kiuwan is a global company providing an end-to-end Application Security Platform to bring objective data and facilitate informed decisions regarding the cost, effort, activity, quality, maintainability, efficiency and dependencies of the Company’s applications. To learn more, visit: www.kiuwan.com.

     

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  • Applitools Recognized as a Top Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Solution in DevOps

    AI-powered visual UI testing technology provides automated visual validation of apps, unclogging critical software delivery bottlenecks hindering digital transformation

     

    SAN MATEO, Calif., October 4, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recognized its AI-powered visual UI testing platform, Applitools Eyes, as a top enterprise software product leveraging AI and Machine Learning (ML) to unclog DevOps and smooth digital transformation. According to the report, AI is now the number one strategic enterprise IT investment priority in 2018.

     

    Read the full “EMA Top 3 Enterprise Decision Guide for AI and Machine Learning” here: (http://go.applitools.com/2018-EMA-AI-Report)

     

    Applitools developed the first and only AI-powered image comparison technology that mimics the human eye and brain to streamline testing of web and mobile applications. The Visual AI engine only reports differences that are perceptible to users and reliably ignore invisible rendering, size and position differences. The algorithms can instantly validate entire application pages, detect layout issues, and process the most complex and dynamic pages. With tens of thousands of users across more than 300 customers, test automation engineers and developers have used Applitools Eyes to perform more than 100 million visual comparisons and one billion component level validations.

     

    To get started with Applitools, sign up for a free Applitools Eyes account at (https://applitools.com/landing/free-account-qa).

     

    “Transitioning from releasing new software once every quarter to a state where small teams can respond to new feature requests or patch requirements within days exponentially increases the workload for test engineers,” says Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates. “Applitools applies a combination of AI/ML and traditional instruction-based coding to reduce the workload of test engineers by consolidating repetitive tasks and by training AI/ML models to only raise red flags when it recognizes a problem with actual end-user impact. Applitools made it into the EMA Top 3 for AI in DevOps, as the software uses AI to achieve the same level of test coverage with the same number of engineers and without slowing down the continuous release process.”

     

    According to the report, respondents state that it’s crucial to eliminate operational silos as a root cause of quality and speed bottlenecks among DevOps teams. Applitools is focused on exactly these problems.

     

    To improve quality, Applitools lets DevOps teams implement visual testing and finds bugs that traditional functional testing misses. Combining visual and functional testing into a DevOps toolchain results in better app quality.

     

    To increase speed, Applitools uses AI to highlight only significant visual bugs, ignoring visual differences that won’t matter to customers. The result: QA never wastes developer time on insignificant visual bugs.

     

    “We are honored to be selected as a Top 3 enterprise software provider in EMA Research’s new report on AI and machine learning in DevOps,” said Adam Carmi, co-founder and CTO of Applitools. “Consumer interactions with businesses are more frequently occurring through digital user interfaces. This puts development and operations teams under the gun to deliver a visually flawless brand experience across all devices, browsers and operating systems. By allowing AI to automate visual validation of web and mobile applications, businesses streamline their DevOps processes and thus their digital transformation.”

     

    For a full video discussion with Torsten Volk and Applitools CTO Adam Carmi, go here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3MWlJn_fQ)

     

    About Applitools

    Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Zenlayer Achieves Standard Technology Partner Status in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network

    Zenlayer’s SD-WAN and Cloud Connect services provide private, low-latency connectivity

     

    LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2, 2018 – Zenlayer, a global software-defined network and services provider, today announced that it has achieved Standard Technology Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). This distinction recognizes that Zenlayer offers proven expertise, technical proficiency and success in helping enterprise customers build hybrid cloud solutions that directly connect to AWS.

    As an APN Standard Technology Partner, Zenlayer gains access to AWS tools, training, and support to better tailor its Cloud Connect service to customers’ AWS requirements. This in turn allows Zenlayer’s Zenlink SD-WAN and Cloud Connect solutions to seamlessly work with AWS. In addition, Zenlayer can now expand its options for future cloud-network integration and extends the availability of its Cloud Connect service to AWS customers.

    Zenlink allows enterprises across verticals to establish dedicated network connections from their premises to AWS, connecting data centers and offices. Some of its benefits include being able to better monitor network quality and seeing which applications consume the most bandwidth. Additionally, enterprises will be able to safely and securely process their workloads in the cloud while reducing network costs and increasing bandwidth throughput. Zenlayer connects to seven AWS Regions, including Ashburn, VA; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; San Jose, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; and Frankfurt, Germany, with China and Brazil soon to follow.

    “We are proud to join the AWS Partner Network to provide cloud connect solutions to enterprises using AWS,” says Joe Zhu, CEO and Founder of Zenlayer. “AWS is known for its strong on-demand cloud computing services and being recognized as an APN Standard Technology Partner reflects our deep commitment to meeting the evolving cloud needs of our customers. We look forward to growing our relationship to help more enterprises realize the full benefits of cloud.”

     

    About Zenlayer

    Zenlayer, a software defined network and services provider, is headquartered in Los Angeles and Shanghai with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shenzhen. Enterprises utilize Zenlayer’s software-defined platforms to instantly enable worldwide connectivity and deliver superior user experience. Zenlayer offers on-demand bare metal cloud, SD-WAN cloud connect, edge computing and colocation in more than 90 data centers on six continents.

    For more information, visit www.zenlayer.com

  • Enterprise Management Associates Selects Electric Cloud’s ElectricFlow as a Top Product for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in DevOps

    Enterprise Decision Guide for AI and ML identifies and profiles top enterprise software solutions to optimize DevOps, datacenter operations and digital transformation initiatives

     

    SAN JOSE, Calif., October 2, 2018 — Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, today announced its flagship product, ElectricFlow, has been selected by EMA Research as a Top 3 enterprise software product in its new report, “EMA Top 3 Enterprise Decision Guide for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).” The report provides pragmatic guidance to enterprises on how to optimally benefit from AI and ML and continuously release better software. This is the second year in a row Electric Cloud has been recognized by EMA Research, previously selected as a “Top Three” in the 2017 report, “Ten Priorities for Hybrid Cloud, Containers and DevOps in 2017.”

    Download the EMA Top 3 Enterprise Decision Guide for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): https://bit.ly/2NJXAHu

    EMA research has found that AI and ML is the number one strategic enterprise IT investment priority in 2018, followed closely by container management and orchestration, and DevOps pipeline automation. At the same time, most enterprises are still struggling to understand the basics of how to successfully evaluate AI and ML solutions, how to put project performance metrics in place, and how to handle key limitations of AI and ML technologies today.

    “As organizations expand DevOps initiatives to include more and more applications and application teams, getting visibility into and balancing the risk-reward for each release becomes much more difficult,” said Torsten Volk, managing research director of containers, DevOps, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at EMA. “Electric Cloud ElectricFlow has automated the data collection and analysis of DevOps toolchain data, and is leveraging AI/ML to provide recommendations that ensure valuable software can be released at the shortest possible time with the lowest possible cost and risk.”

    DevOps toolchains continuously create vast amounts of data originating from numerous tools across the entire software delivery process. AI and ML can now help companies continuously learn from the massive amounts of data generated, which could ultimately result in a recipe for achieving universal DevOps success across all of the diverse teams and roles within the enterprise. According to the report, compliance is the number one pain point in DevOps today. By gathering all customer, team and project specific data in the DevOps toolchain, the ability to leverage AI and ML to help companies continuously take risk, cost and anxiety out of software releases is a game changer.

    ElectricFlow, the leading application release orchestration platform, uses deep learning to identify patterns in release pipelines and gauge the likelihood of software release success. By applying machine learning algorithms to the massive amounts of data generated by tool chains, ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight provides predictive analytics to develop a risk score metric that predicts the outcomes of releases before they head into production. Taking predictive analytics even further, the platform is also able to illustrate where to improve pipelines based on developer influence, code complexity influence, and more.

    “It is an honor to be recognized by EMA as a leading provider of actionable DevOps insight for development and operations teams through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO of Electric Cloud. “We pride ourselves in helping customers save hundreds of hours of work and relieve unnecessary anxiety related to releasing new products to market. By enabling data-driven insights about their software delivery toolchains and processes, they have the foresight to know a release’s success rate by looking at past successes and failures, build complexity, author profiles and more.”

    To arrange a demo of ElectricFlow DevOps Foresight, visit: (http://electric-cloud.com/solutions/devops-foresight/)

    Some of the key benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning as identified in the research include:

    • Freeing up 30 percent of developer time used to support infrastructure
    • Eliminating operational silos as the root cause of cost, quality, and speed bottlenecks in DevOps
    • Proactively addressing operational issues and minimize mean time to repair (MTTR)

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    About Electric Cloud, Inc.
    Electric Cloud’s Adaptive Release Orchestration platform helps organizations like E*TRADE, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin confidently release new applications and adapt to change at any speed demanded by the business, with the analytics and insight to measure, track, and improve their results.

     

  • Itential Announces Integration with Red Hat Ansible Network Automation

    With Red Hat Ansible Network Automation, Itential to enable network engineering and IT operations teams to create and execute network automation capabilities without writing code

     

    AUSTIN – ANSIBLEFEST 2018, OCT 2, 2018 /PRWeb/ — ItentialÒ, the leader in intelligent network automation, today announced at AnsibleFest 2018, its integration with Red Hat Ansible Network Automation. The integration is intended to enable both network engineering and IT operations teams to create and execute network automation capabilities without writing code.

     

    Red Hat Ansible Network Automation is a powerful tool for automating network configuration changes and is an innovative tool for networking teams across the globe. By using common APIs to “handshake” Itential and Red Hat Ansible technologies, organizations can apply low-code methods and intelligent capabilities to networking automation. This can help teams to accelerate their organization’s movement toward a software-driven network operations practice.

     

    “Through the integration with Itential, we can extend Ansible automation deeper into organizations that may lack specific networking expertise,” said Justin Nemmers, general manager, Ansible, Red Hat. “Using Itential’s service orchestration capabilities with the powerful automation of Red Hat Ansible Tower helps to provide users an additional tool in automating within their organizations.”

     

    The Itential for Red Hat Ansible solution includes features that help enhance and expand Ansible’s network automation capabilities:

     

    • Network Automation Activities – Itential’s low-code development interface can allow network engineers and operators to create and execute network automation use cases without writing code.
    • Build Network Intelligent Workflows – Leverage Ansible modules, roles and playbooks, along with Itential’s integrations and adapters, for network automation.
    • Expand Ansible Use Cases – Itential’s network automation capabilities enable organizations to expand the types of network changes automated with Ansible to include orchestration changes crossing multiple, diverse automation domains.
    • Discover Ansible Modules & Roles – Itential dynamically discovers Ansible modules, roles and other network configuration actions in your environment, making them available for use within network intelligent workflows.
    • Federate & Decorate Ansible Playbooks, Roles and Modules – Itential enables Ansible users to enhance their playbooks, roles and modules for easier consumption, and dynamically identifies and leverages both certified and custom developed Ansible automations.
    • Leverages Red Hat Ansible Tower – Itential’s enhanced network automation supports Ansible Tower’s single pane of glass across DevOps, App Dev and NetOps teams, including a visual dashboard, job scheduling, integrated notification and graphical inventory management.
    • Itential Ansible Modules – Itential’s Ansible modules mean Itential can be called from playbooks and Ansible Tower job templates. Itential modules for Ansible are available on www.github.com/itential.

     

    “We have seen network engineers embrace Red Hat Ansible Network Automation,” said Chris Wade, co-founder and CTO of Itential. “Now with the integration of Itential’s federated and network intelligent workflow builder with Ansible Network Automation, organizations have a more comprehensive set of technologies that can help accelerate their journey toward network automation.”

     

    Itential simplifies and automates the journey toward the modern network and bridges the gap between IT and networking teams by enabling users to easily build, execute and visualize Network Intelligent Workflows. Itential’s low-code environment provides a vendor agnostic, turnkey solution, connecting network orchestrators and controllers with IT Service Management applications and configuration tools to accomplish closed-loop network automation. Itential’s products are in use today within some of the world’s largest networks, including many of the top service provider and financial services companies throughout the U.S. and abroad.

     

    To learn more about Itential for Red Hat Ansible Network Automation, click here or stop by booth #302 to see a live demo or to meet with a member of our team.

     

    About Itential

    Itential provides powerful network automation software to companies worldwide, from Fortune 500 telecommunications and financial service companies to enterprises of all sizes. We are committed to building world-class products that accelerate the move toward software-driven networks and next generation, agile network operations. We are exclusively focused on delivering network automation solutions that help our customers realize their vision of digital transformation. Our solutions leverage the latest thinking, open standards, open architectures, partners and best practices to drive network operations and maximize the impact of automation. Learn more at www.Itential.com